The ASC’s Gender/Sexuality Research Group is proud to share the second season of their very own podcast! “Oswoić gender,” hosted by Dr. Anna Kurowicka and Dr. Marta Usiekniewicz, aims to present research in gender and sexuality studies done at the University of Warsaw.

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The first season of this Polish-language podcast features conversations with ASC facult and is available at the Gender/Sexuality Research Group’s website.

In the second season the authors talked to researchers working at various UW faculties: Agnieszka Kościańska, Rafał Majka, Iwona Kurz, Zu Jusińska, Marta Rawłuszko, Paweł Frelik, Jay Szpilka, as well as Michał Sobczak and Łukasz Mikołajewski.

Each new episode will be released on Wednesday (starting February 22) and available on platforms including Spotify, Anchor fm, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts, and YouTube.

Subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcast app not to miss any of the episodes.

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Student research grant 2025/26

December 11, 2025

The American Studies Center is pleased to announce a competition for student research grants. The grants will support students’ work on their MA theses and BA papers written in conjunction with their BA seminars. As the research must be related to a BA paper or an MA thesis, 3rd-year BA students and MA students of all years will have priority.

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Holiday break at the ASC

December 9, 2025

We would like to inform you that the holiday break at the American Studies Center will take place from 22 December 2025 to 6 January 2026. On 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31 December the offices will have limited online availability.

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 11: “Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism”

December 3, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the next lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) with a lecture titled “Mother(less) Tongues of ‘America’: Xenoglossic Writing and Xenoglossic Breathing in the Poetry of Etel Adnan and LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs”.

Year 2025/2026

Dec 11-12: International Conference on Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Politics of Knowledge Production

November 28, 2025

The American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw invites you to the international conference Anti-gender campaigns and the politics of knowledge production, to be held on 11–12 December 2025 in Warsaw, Poland.

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Call for Papers: “America and the World: A Reciprocal History of Influence and Exchange”

November 26, 2025

In 2026, the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw will celebrate its 50th anniversary, a landmark occasion that coincides with the 250th anniversary of the United States. To mark these dual jubilees, we invite scholars to submit papers that explore the past, present, and future of the United States, its global impact, and the evolving role of American Studies as a field of inquiry.